By Seth Tamarkin, Contributing Writer The day before orientation this semester, a frightened student sent a long email to Admissions. “I don’t feel safe at home,” the email stated, noting how he felt his “only two options were death or jail” if he wasn’t accepted into school. UMass Dartmouth’s official response? Sorry, but your admission is being revoked anyways. The case began last summer when … Continue reading M.E.N. disscusses how to help a gangbanger denied an education

By Seth Tamarkin, Contributing Writer You can understand a lot about a country by their horror films. Specifically, you can learn about their citizens’ collective fears when they manifest as underlying themes in those kinds of movies. In 1954’s Gojira, for example, the giant radioactive lizard that destroys Tokyo is a direct response to the psychological scarring that the Hiroshima bombing left on the Japanese … Continue reading Italian film series kicks off with gory horror classic Deep Red